Historical records matching Princess Alice of Battenberg
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About Princess Alice of Battenberg
mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C)
Alice of Battenberg, Princess of Greece and Denmark
Burial
10 December 1969 St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Re-internment 3 August 1988 Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem
Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie Princess of Battenberg, HSH Princess Alice of Battenburg. On marriage HRH Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Was born Deaf, She learnt to lip read four languages.
Royal House
- House of Battenberg (Cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt)
Princess Alice of Battenberg later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969), was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Princess Alice was the only royal to
- give away her worldly goods,
- be buried in Jerusalem as "righteous among the nations" for saving Jews in World War II,
- start her own monastic order,
- devote her life to charity work,
- be profoundly deaf from birth
- speak three languages.
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Princess Alice of Battenberg's Timeline
| 1885 |
February 25, 1885
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Tapestry Room Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
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February 25, 1885
- October 6, 1903
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Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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April 25, 1885
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Darmstadt, Hessen-Nassau, Deutschland(DKR)
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April 25, 1885
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Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
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| 1903 |
October 6, 1903
- December 5, 1969
Age 18
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Athens, Attica, Attica, Greece
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April 18, 1905
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Old Royal Palace, Athens, Greece
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April 18, 1905
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May 13, 1906
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Tatoi Palace, Corfu, Greece
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May 13, 1906
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